William BAKER

(1831-1910)

BAKER, William, a
Representative from Kansas; born near Centerville, Washington
County, Pa., April 29, 1831; attended the public schools and was
graduated from the Waynesboro College in 1856; taught school; moved
to Iowa in 1859 and became principal of the public schools in
Council Bluffs; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860 but
never practiced; returned to Bealsville, Washington County, Pa., in
1865; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1865-1878; moved to Lincoln
County, Kans., in 1878; engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock
raising; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed agricultural
pursuits; died in Lincoln, Kans., February 11, 1910; interment in
Lincoln Center Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present